Stimulsoft updates Reports.Web

Stimulsoft Reports.Web is a report generator which helps you create flexible and feature rich reports. All reports are created in a report designer which has a handy and user-friendly interface. You can use the report designer both in design time and in runtime. No royalties for using the report designer in runtime are required. Using Stimulsoft Reports.Net you can create reports based on a variety of data sources. Created reports can be used both in Windows Forms and in ASP.NET. Rendered reports can be exported to PDF, XPS, Excel, Word etc. Source code is available.

Updates in 2009.3

• Viewer.Fx performance
  In version 2009.3 the Viewer.Fx component has been completely redesigned. As a result of the work it has become two times faster. It takes less memory. The animation works faster, pages are shown faster, reports are loaded quicker. Now showing 1000 pages in no longer a problem.
• Super ToolTips
  Super ToolTips provide much more information about controls. Detailed tips describe each button. Super ToolTips are available both in the designer and in the viewer.
• Fonts in Viewer.Fx
  Now the report viewer recognizes all modes of the TextQuality property of the Text component.
• Export dialogs are now in Viewer.Fx
  Export dialogs for all formats are added. Now, when saving a report to any available formats, you may configure export settings.
• Save images in assemblies sources
  There was an problem in the reporting tool when it was impossible to include big images to the report body. Now such images will be automatically placed in the report assemblies sources. To disable this property you need to use the StoreImageInResources property. This property is added to a report and is available in the report designer.
• Interactivity in Viewer.Fx
  Added sorting support in the interactive mode of Viewer.Fx. Sorting works both by one column and by several columns. Sorting is set using the Interaction.SortingColumn property of a component. Now the Interaction.Hyperlink property works in Viewer.Fx. This makes you able to set hyperlinks in a report.
• Viewing reports in Reports Designer.Web
  Full list of functions is added to the data dictionary of a report. All functions are structured by categories. It is necessary to drag a function from the data dictionary to the window of editor and this function will be added to a category.
• The panel of compilation is added to Reports Designer.Web
  A panel that shows compilation errors has been added. It is enough to double click on an error to see where the error occurred.
• Work with reports files in Reports Designer.Web
  The new version of the report designer can work with report files on the client side. And there is no need use special forms of ASP.NET. Everything is very simple the Open item of the main menu opens a report from the file using dialog. The Save report as... menu item saves a report to the file using the dialog.
• Compression and encryption
  There are global changes in methods of data exchange between the client side and the server side of Reports Designer.Web in version 2009.3. Now all information can be encrypted and compressed. By default the encryption is disabled (the StiWebDesigner.DataEncryption property). By default compression is enabled (the StiWebDesigner.DataCompression property).

About Stimulsoft

Stimulsoft specializes in the development of components for the Microsoft.NET Framework. Customer satisfaction is the company's first priority and as such it aims to produce top quality software. Application development is not always easy, but Stimulsoft does its best to help developers to incorporate into their applications the most advanced technologies available on the market today.